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Nationality
  
Sri Lankan (Sinhala)

Education
  
Died
  
July 2, 1999

Name
  
Asoka Weeraratna

Religion
  
Theravada Buddhism


Asoka Weeraratna

Born
  
12 December 1918
Galle, Ceylon

Other names
  
Alfred WeeraratnaVen. Dhammanisanthi Thera

Known for
  
Propagation of Buddhism

Buddhist mission to germany from sri lanka asoka weeraratna


Asoka Weeraratna was a Sri Lankan [Sinhala] Buddhist missionary, who founded the German Dharmaduta Society in 1952. He is also the founder of the Berlin Buddhist Vihara, one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Europe and Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya, a famous meditation monastery in the Western Province, Sri Lanka. Asoka Weeraratna later entered the Order of Buddhist monks in 1972 as Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanisanthi Thera and spent his later life as a forest monk at the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya for a period of 27 years.

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Asoka Weeraratna Wikipedia


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